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Gustav Klimt portrait that spared its subject from Nazis breaks modern art records with $236M sale

A Gustav Klimt portrait painting that helped save the life of its Jewish subject during the Holocaust sold Tuesday for $236. 4 million — a record for a modern art piece — at an auction where a solid gold toilet also fetched $12. 1 million. Klimt's “Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer” sold at Sotheby’s in New York after a 20-minute bidding war, also becoming the most expensive work of art ever sold by the fine art broker worldwide. It is one of two full-length portraits by the Austrian in...

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